Andre Kikoski, who was brave enough to take on the challenge of designing a restaurant within Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece museum, the Guggenheim, was just named the 2010 James Beard Foundation Award winner for Outstanding ...READ MORE›
Today is the birth anniversary day of a potential poster boy for work/life balance dysfunction, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Notoriously driven and notoriously difficult, Wright once said “No house should ever be on a ...READ MORE›
When you're thinking about your own brand on the Net - think in terms of how one might design and build a beautiful piece of architecture. Each piece is integral to the other, even those that are decorative serve an important ...READ MORE›
Affordable, modern architecture is a white whale. Which is where Hometta comes in. The site, which goes live next month, will offer modern house plans designed by 20 up-and-coming contemporary architects. The plans will range ...READ MORE›
Recession? What recession? Some brave restaurateurs are defying the economic gloom and doom and opening new places. We take a look at the design behind a select few. First up, The Wright, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.READ MORE›
Swiss Life's brand-new headquarters is one huge spiral ramp, which can be reconfigured into offices or meeting spaces as the business changes over time.READ MORE›
Think you have what it takes to design an electricity, gas, and water-free shelter that blends into the natural environment? Then enter the Design It:Shelter competition. The competition, held by Google Sketchup and the Guggenheim ...READ MORE›
Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ MORE›
Shelters should provide a relationship between architecture and place. That's the premise of the Design it: Shelter competition, which asked designers to submit a 3-D shelter meant for any location in the world. Inspired by Frank ...READ MORE›
Nowness.com, a digital magazine created by LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, wants to teach you how to live a life of luxury. Relax. The site, at least, is free.
In a time when luxury sales are not exactly on the up and up, ...READ MORE›
New York's new program for encouraging better public architecture has just born fruit, in a new community center designed by George Ranalli. As the Wall Street Journal's Ada Louise Huxtable writes:
...the Saratoga Avenue ...READ MORE›
The topic of design has generated a lot of buzz lately--so much, in fact, that some suggest that the renewed interest in all things creative is a passing fad. Not exactly. If we let history be our guide, we'll see that there's a ...READ MORE›
Next month, the Southern California Institute of Architecture is honoring two women who are pillars of the Los Angeles architecture community.READ MORE›
If you were in the market for an introduction to the New Urbanism -- what is it for? what is it against? what is it about, really? -- your choices on the opening day of the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU 18) were either a ...READ MORE›
It's not been a bad week-plus for business innovation:
On June 3, 1965, the first American space walk occurred.
On June 4, 1626, Dutch colonist Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan.
On June 6, 1934, the Securities and Exchange ...READ MORE›
Understanding how you think is just as important as what you think about, says Annette Moser-Wellman, founder of the FireMark consultancy. She teaches managers how to identify their creative style.READ MORE›
Michelle Kaufmann Designs, a path-breaking seller of modern, eco-friendly pre-fab homes, is folding due to the anemic housing market and the credit crisis at large.
Kaufmann's firm became synonymous with the contemporary ...READ MORE›
Renowned Asian designers now helm two of the U.S.'s traditionally Eurocentric architecture schools. Here's what they're teaching the new generation of American architects.READ MORE›
Share on StumbleUpon
Share on LinkedIn